▪ I. † porture, n.1 Obs. rare.
Also 4 portoure, 5 porteure.
[a. OF. port(e)ure bearing, demeanour, that which is borne, offspring:—L. type *portātūra, f. L. portāre, F. porter to carry: see -ure.]
1. Bearing, demeanour, behaviour.
| c 1305 St. Swithin 25 in E.E.P. (1862) 44 Þat he teiȝte him such portoure þat to a such child bicome. c 1400 Laud Troy Bk. 16604 Pirrus is knyght gode & gay, Off ffair porture, of gode aray. c 1440 Ipomydon 121 For thoughe a man wold all this day Hyr beaute discryue, he coude not sey All hyr worshyp ne hyr porture. |
2. Offspring, progeny.
| 1480 Caxton Ovid's Met. xiii. ix, Yet he is not fylled ne satisfyed but defowleth my porteure deed or quyke. |
▪ II. † ˈporture, n.2 Obs. rare.
[f. porture v.]
A portrait, image, effigy.
| 1542 Udall Erasm. Apoph. 88 The porture of a man in brasse or stone. Ibid. 115 b, The people of Athenes..made & sette vp..their ymages and portures in coppre. 1570 Levins Manip. 192/44 A Porture, pictura, effigies. |
▪ III. † ˈporture, portere, v. Obs.
Chiefly in pa. pple. 4–6 portred, 5 purtred, 6 portered (-ide, Sc. -it), portured (-id, Sc. -yt), po(u)rturde, purtured.
[A by-form of portray. Occurs first in pa. pple. portred, app. an anglicized form of OF. portrait, portret, pa. pple. of portraire to portray; from the later variants portered, porterit, portured, was evolved the vb. porter, porture in 16th c. But portrewynge vbl. n. is found a 1400. Cf. conster from construe.]
1. trans. To paint, or ornament with pictures.
| c 1394 P. Pl. Crede 192 Þat cloister..was pilered and peynt & portred well clene. c 1400 Plowman's Tale 135 That hye on horse willeth ryde In glitterand golde of grete aray, I-paynted and portred all in pryde. 1539 Taverner Gard. Wysed. ii. 10 They haue the walles of theyr houses portered with armes. |
2. To portray, depict. Also fig.
| a 1440 Sir Degrev. 1448 There was purtred in ston..The story of Absolon. 1511 in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. I. 181 They shall present theymself with theyr names portered in theyr shyldes. 1513 Douglas æneis vii. iv. 70 The ancyant king Saturne thair mycht thou se..Wyth wthir prencis porturyt in that place. 1530 Palsgr. 662/2, I portyr, I make the shappe, or the portrature of a thynge, je pourtrays... I porter a thynge after the quycke. 1563 B. Googe Eglogs, etc. (Arb.) 114 There myght I se, with wondrous Arte, the Picture porturde playne. 1570 Levins Manip. 193/15 To Porture, pingère. |
3. To form, fashion, mould, make: = portray v. 5.
| 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) II. 189 Aurelius tua sisteris fair and gude,..he had of plesand pulchritude, Porterit but peir, full of formositie. |
Hence † ˈporturing vbl. n.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. xxxvii. (Tollem. MS.), Liche to golde in crownes amonge portrewynge [1535 porturynge] and peyntoure. |